Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Garden Dreams

Hi all and welcome to day one ofFlourishes' sneak peeks for December! This release is full of floral fancy and today is no exception. When this set was just in the concept form, illustrator Marcella Hawley came to us with images from her own home. She not only loves to draw botanical images and dream about botanicals but she loves bringing them to life in her own garden. It's really quite incredible. She pitched this concept based on what she loves to do in the winter months, dream about spring! And so, we bring you....

I went pretty simple on the image for this one, I didn't want to over do it. I distressed the cardstock edges for the stamped image and layered it on a Spellbinders die cut out in chocolate colored cardstock.

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When winter hits, dreams of being in the garden begin with open sketch books, seed catalogs and garden journals - planning, plotting and envisioning sprouts and buds emerging from the soil. This set, illustrated by Marcella Hawley features three vivid vignettes honoring these garden dreams. Also features three beautifully scripted sentiments. Set measures 4" by 6". If you like what you see, you can pre-order this set right now by clickingHERE!

Or.... would you like to try to win this set? All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below! Why? You need to try to figure out who is the…

One of the ladies on our link list below will be picking a name from the comments on her blog post today. We don’t know which one it is… so the more blogs you leave comments on, the more chances you have to win! So what are you waiting for? Head on over to see all the fun-filled way our designers have put their garden dreams on paper!

DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD WIN OUR ENTIRE DECEMBER RELEASE? Have you checked out our Let's Hop Challenge?Just click HEREto find out how to play! You have until Friday, December 14th at 5 PM EST and winners will be announced Saturday in our Winner’s Circle blog post! Word on the street is, there might be more than one winner chosen for the Let's Hop Challenge! So get those fingers inky and good luck!

The good news? If you like what you see on our designers’ blogs today, you can pre-order this set (along with the other two sets as well) and if you purchase all three sets, you can take advantage our New Release Bundleand get 10% off all our new sets when you purchase it in the bundle. What fun! All sets will be live first thing Friday morning along with the coordinating cut files for this release. So, be sure to stick with us this week as we unveil a whole new host of paper crafting goodies!

We’ll see you back here tomorrow for another new release sneak peek! This one is part of a continuing collection that honors the first blooms of the season! Yes, that was your hint! See you then!Supplies Used:

Heather, smart use of BG paper enhancing orchid leaves Flourishes Garden Dreams green. Thank you for enlivening dreams during a heavy wet snow fall outside my window. All those graph paper garden layouts will have to wait while stamping Garden Dreams uplifts others with January and February greetings. You go, girl.Keep Looking UP!

OH MY HEATHER!!!!!!! THIS IS A TO DIE FOR CARD!!!!!!!!! You colored your image PERFECTLY!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN the GREEN is matched up perfectly to your designer paper! AND the flower is SO DELICATE LOOKING because of the soft coloring you've done!!!!!!!!!!! WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!! :)